182 MISS L. 8. GIBBS: A CONTRIBUTION TO 
shorter. Spikelets about 1:6 mm. long, pedicel 0°5 to 1 mm. long. Lower 
flowering glume 1:5 mm. long, anthers of male flowers brown ; fertile glume 
1:3 mm. long. 
Hab. Coli Nadarivatu, about 3100. FI. Sept. 815. 
А well marked species near /. distichophylla, Munro (Sandwich Islands), 
but distinguished by the absence of a callous margin to the leaf and also 
by the pubescent inflorescence and spikelets. Z. pallens, Hillebrand, from 
Oahu, has pubescent florets, but is a much smaller, slenderer plant with 
glabrous panicle and longer-pedicelled spikelets. 
Panicum COLONUM, Linn. Syst. ed. x. 870. 
Nadarivatu, 1500, in boggy area off road to Waikubakuba. FI. & Fr. 
Sept. 694. 
Distrib. Hawaii. Tropics of both hemispheres. Not previously recorded 
for Fiji. 
CENTOTHECA LAPPACEA, Desv. in Nour, Bull. ое. Philom. ii, (1810) 189. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, carpeting in forest. Fl. Sept. 614. 
Distrib. Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Marquesas, N.E. Australia. Tropics 
of Old World generally. 
CONIFER. 
TAXACEÆ. 
PODOCARPUS IMBRICATA, Blume, Епит. Pl. Jav. 89. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, in mixed forest. Veg. Sept. Young plant 775a; 
forest tree 775 B. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu). 
Forest tree, 36 m. high, with straight trunk, and erect branches forming a 
compact crown. 
PopocaRPus VITIENSIS, Seem. Bonplandia, x. (1862) 366. 
Nadarivatu, 2780, in mixed forest. $$. Sept. 674. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau). 
A magnificent tree, known by the natives as the Dakua Salu Salu, it is 
esteemed the finest wood in the Islands. Of two trees cut down at the 
same time, one was d and the other $. On the д the cones were very 
sparsely borne, as they only occur singly, generally terminating lateral 
branches, but their position is sometimes lateral. In the case of the 9 tree, 
the young fruit of a beautiful magenta-red, with a waxy bloom, was so 
abundant as to colour the whole of the erown. Only the mature seeds ot 
this species have been collected before. 
